Translate

About me

My name is Beth. I'm 53 years old and I married my wonderful hubby on my 50th birthday. We live in a lovely village with my Mum (who is 91 years old), two beautiful retired greyhounds and several fish, both coldwater and tropical. I have two fabulous grown up stepsons, one of whom, together with his beautiful new wife, have given us two gorgeous grandkids with another wee one due in January 2012. I've been crafting and cardmaking for a number of years. I enjoy rubber stamping and colouring in with Promarkers and watercolours. I've been taking drawing classes as that's something I've wanted to do for a long time and also recently tried sugarcraft for the first time. Life is good.

Total Page Views

Friday, 13 January 2012

Hello fellow bloggers. I hope you've had a good week? Mine has been pretty naff. Everything that could go wrong at work has done so and even my birthday last Tuesday was a bit of a damp squib as I had to work late. The highlight was opening all the cards I received from my birthday swap friends over at Craft Telly Forum. They were all beautiful and made my birthday much more special than it would have otherwise been.

Anyway, enough of my yakking on. A very dear friend of mine has been going through a rough patch and I haven't been able to get in touch via our usual means. Several of our mutual friends have decided to get together and post her a whole bunch of hand crafted cards just to let her know that we are thinking of her and this is the card I have made:

I made the background by stamping with Versamark a piece of Clarity card using one of my favourite Marion Emberson stamps which I embossed with gold embossing powder. I then used Peeled Paint distress ink to colour in the background. The wooden fan/leaf shape is something I discovered in a box of pot pourri that I have had for a while. The added bonus of using that is it smells good! The sentiment is just printed out on my PC. It's a simple card, but I love the way it turned out.